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Talking with Painters
Episodes
Ep 72: The Sulman
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s your guide to the paintings of the six podcast guests whose works were shortlisted in the 2019 Sir John Sulman prize. Go to episodes 73 a...
Ep 71: Archibald Wynne and Sulman 2019
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This year twenty podcast guests were selected as finalists in the Archibald, Wynne, and Sulman prizes, which are exhibited every year at the Art Galle...
Ep 70: Tony Costa
23 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Costa says winning the Archibald makes the invisible artist visible but you wouldn’t have called him invisible before he won the prize this yea...
Ep 69: Neil Frazer
26 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Neil Frazer is a landscape painter but don’t expect pictures of rolling hills or calming seascapes. His powerful work depicts the harsh and dan...
Ep 68: Blak Douglas
05 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Blak Douglas is well known for his brightly coloured landscapes with their trademark seven-tiered sky but he’s also an accomplished portraitist. At...
Ep 67: Del Kathryn Barton
14 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Del Kathryn Barton is undoubtedly one of the biggest names in Australian art today. Her work is hotly sought after internationally and, in Australia, ...
Ep 66: Kiata Mason
24 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Through her art, Kiata Mason takes us into her world and her way of seeing. Her still lifes are filled with the objects from her home, collected over ...
Ep 65: Nicholas Harding
10 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Harding is one of Australia’s most celebrated artists. He has been awarded the Archibald prize, the Archibald People’s Choice awa...
Ep 64: Luke Sciberras
24 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve ever met Luke Sciberras you’ll know he’s larger than life. Full of joie de vivre and good humour, he attacks life with gusto from ...
Ep 63: Tony Tuckson (part 2): Artist Aida Tomescu
03 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 62 I spoke with senior curator Denise Mimmocchi about the late abstract expressionist artist Tony Tuckson and the exhibition ‘ Tuckso...
Ep 62: Tony Tuckson (part 1): Curator Denise Mimmocchi
03 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Denise Mimmocchi, senior curator of Australian art at the Art Gallery of NSW, has brought together a magnificent exhibition of the abstract works of t...
Ep 61: Michaye Boulter
17 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
From the age of 2, when she sailed with her parents from Australia to Canada, Michaye Boulter’s life has never been far from the sea. Spending w...
Ep 60: Justin Williams
03 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Press ‘play’ above to hear the podcast episode and click here or scroll down for YouTube video! Over the last six years Justin Williams ha...
Ep 59: Melinda Harper
19 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Melinda Harper is one of Australia’s leading abstract artists. Her works, filled with geometric forms and often with an explosion of colour, hav...
Ep 58: Natasha Walsh
04 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Natasha Walsh is one of Australia’s most exciting emerging artists. A few months ago, over a period of about 12 weeks, she won three prestigious art...
Ep 57: Joe Furlonger
21 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Furlonger is one of Australia’s most respected painters, with his work crossing landscape, figures and portraiture. He’s probably best k...
Ep 56: Jacqui Stockdale
07 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jacqui Stockdale paints, sculpts, collages, creates animations, has staged live performances and produces exquisite portrait photography. When I visit...
Ep 55: Alexander McKenzie
25 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In Alexander McKenzie’s paintings the sun hides below the horizon and a low light illuminates the mysterious landscape. It might be a manicured ...
Ep 54: Ann Thomson
09 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ann Thomson is one of Australia’s most significant artists. She’s been painting for over 60 years, has exhibited in over 40 solo shows and the...
Ep 53: Laura Jones
27 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What do you imagine when you think of a painting of flowers by a woman artist? It might be a Margaret Olley still life set in her crowded Paddington t...
Ep 52: Gina Kalabishis
12 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Gina Kalabishis’s work is about relationships and connection; connecting with nature and connecting with each other. Her recent show at Flinders...
Ep 51: Marc Etherington
29 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
There’s the Archibald portraits but there’s also the other stuff; a painting of a home aquarium where a scuba diver is caught in the tentacles...
Ep 50: Andrew Lloyd Greensmith
15 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If you are an Archibald tragic like me, you might have first noticed Andrew Lloyd Greensmith’s work when it was hanging in the Art Gallery of NS...
Ep 49: Bernard Ollis
01 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Bernard Ollis’s art takes you on a journey. It might be down a windy road down a back lane in Sydney, across a bridge in Paris or you might find...
Ep 48: Dee Smart
17 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
You may know Dee Smart from the popular Australian television series Water Rats or Home and Away or from her feature film roles but you can now add th...
Ep 47: Steve Lopes
03 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Lopes is not looking to make a pretty picture. For a work to be enduring he believes ‘there has to be a level of poison in it’, som...
Ep 46: John Wolseley
20 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
John Wolseley is one of Australia’s most important artists. He portrays the Australian landscape and its ecosystems from the roots of a tree to a ...
Ep 45: Wendy Sharpe
07 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Wendy Sharpe is one of Australia’s most acclaimed and significant painters. She won the Art Gallery of NSW’s Sulman prize in 1986 and has been pow...
Ep 44: Tim Allen
17 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine you’re out in the wilderness at least an hour’s walk from any sign of human life. It could be very hot, it could be freezing, and in f...
Ep 43: ‘Salient: Contemporary artists at the Western Front’
08 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
See the Talking with Painters YouTube video below In 2017 a group of twelve Australian artists travelled to Belgium and France to the first World War...
Ep 42: Lottie Consalvo
25 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Lottie Consalvo is not only a painter. She works across performance art, photography, video and sculpture. She’s had 9 solo shows in painting alon...
Ep 41: Megan Seres
26 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Although she first went to art school at 15, it wasn’t until she was 38 that Megan Seres started on her path to become a practising artist – w...
Ep 40: Peter O’Doherty
25 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If he doesn’t have a paintbrush in his hand it’s likely he’ll have a guitar because Peter O’Doherty is as much a musician and songwriter a...
Ep 39: Renee French
11 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Born in the US and currently living in Australia, Renee French is an artist acclaimed for her hundreds, if not thousands, of drawings in the form of o...
Ep 38: William Mackinnon
28 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
William Mackinnon’s landscapes are at the same time familiar and unexpected. Car headlights illuminate a dark country road revealing improbable ...
Ep 37: Vincent Fantauzzo
10 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Vincent Fantauzzo is one of Australia’s most popular portrait artists. He has won the Doug Moran National Portrait prize, is a four time winne...
Ep 36: Paul Ryan
26 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Ryan has had a huge year – 3 solo shows across Australia with Nanda Hobbs, Edwina Corlette and James Makin galleries as well as work being show...
Ep 35: Prudence Flint
12 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Prudence Flint paints women. Usually in an interior setting and often in an intimate, solitary moment. Her subject might be in the bathroom, showering...
Ep 34: Ken Done
29 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Done has the most widely recognised name and work of any living Australian painter. His paintings are about the good things in life – happi...
Ep 33: Aida Tomescu
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Click here to hear extended interview on YouTube and scroll down for my four YouTube videos of Aida Tomescu She fled communist Romania in 1980, arrivi...
Ep 32: Vanessa Stockard
27 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Vanessa Stockard’s work is powerful. If you look into the eyes of her ‘Self-portrait as new mum’ which is hanging in the Archibald Prize thi...
Ep 31: Jonathan Dalton
18 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In 2007, Archibald prize finalist, Jonathan Dalton, decided to let go of the photography business he had built up in his homeland of Ireland and start...
Ep 30: Amanda Penrose Hart
05 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Armed with her favourite palette knife which she’s used for the last 10 years, Amanda Penrose Hart dynamically captures the landscape in paint both ...
Ep 29: James Drinkwater
21 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
He’s a musician, singer, songwriter, poet and sculptor but of course James Drinkwater is primarily a painter and one of the most exciting contempora...
Ep 28: Jude Rae
07 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jude Rae is as interested in faces as she is in gas bottles and airports with her work crossing genres from portraiture to still life and architectura...
Ep 27: Joanna Logue
24 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Joanna Logue is an award-winning painter whose work distinctively reflects her experience of the countryside and bushland. Through her sensual a...
Ep 26: Jordy Kerwick
05 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
He only started painting about 18 months ago, but Jordy Kerwick has caught the attention of art dealers and curators across the world. As this episode...
Ep 25: Natasha Bieniek
22 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
At only 32 years of age, Natasha Bieniek has been awarded the Wynne prize for landscape painting, the Portia Geach Memorial award for portrait paint...
Ep 24: Lewis Miller
08 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Lewis Miller is one of Australia’s greatest living portrait artists. He won Australia’s most famous portrait award, the Archibald prize, ...
Ep 23: Michael Simms
25 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
With his work currently hanging in Flinders Lane Gallery alongside other leading emerging artists, Michael Simms’ career has taken a leap si...
Ep 22: Suzanne Archer
11 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Suzanne Archer has been an influential artist in Australia for over four decades, producing superb works across painting, drawing and sculpture. Born ...
Ep 21: McLean Edwards
27 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
One of Australia’s most outstanding painters, McLean Edwards had his first solo show at 16 years of age when he was still at high school. Si...